I really hope we see galleries in clients with users in control what ends up in the gallery. (Not every meme has to land there) great for attracting artists and content creators.

I think you are correct

I think the pioneering work of virology was shoddy science (eg physical damage causing plant illness in Tobacco Mosaic Virus research)

I think the definition of virus has changed several times without finding a physical thing to nail down what exactly it is

I think strict germ theory a la Koch's postulates (in which a pathogen is both necessary and sufficient to cause illness) doesn't hold water; this is shown by Koch's own work on cholera as well as other experiments such as the attempts to spread 'Spanish' influenza in a controlled setting

All that said, I think contagion seems to be a real phenomenon (although strictly speaking what we really observe is clusters or sequences of illness) and this requires something like a pathogen to explain

I am inclined to think that some "viruses" are psychosomatic, environmental toxins, etc. but probably some are just smaller bacteria

On the other hand, the PCR-based method of "identifying" viruses introduces concern about whether you're really identifying the thing you think you're identifying

The more I think about it, the less I see sponsors / ads work for Nostr apps without going completely against the ethos of the users willing to early-adopt your app.

How do you handle Sponsors on a Nostr app WITHOUT tracking your users?

Because you can get some "global" measures of views and likes etc, but the sponsor is gonna want to know what percentage goes through your app.

Instagram and tiktok have way more users than Twitter yet we don’t have any clients that have similar browsing experience for mostly media. How come?

In my opinion Abrahamic religions share some very bad ideas

This world is less "real" than what comes after death

This world is a trial to be endured

Goodness consists of sacrificing one's well-being in this world, for benefits in the later realm

I think these are related to Nietzsche's slave and master morality

I think Abrahamic religions tend to prioritize meekness and submission, which Nietzsche describes as slave morality

The psychologocial justification for this is that by rejecting power now we will be even more empowered in the next life

I think Nietzsche is correct in noticing that unlimited submission involves relinquishing one's own will to live and this breeds resentment

I think Rand is correct in outlining a third alternative which breaks the master/slave dichotomy: trader morality

Like master morality, this involves a will to live; the good, strong, beautiful, etc are once again synonymous

Like slave morality, the trader forsakes violence, plunder and domination as a way of life

Recommended readings:

Freidrich Nietzche

-Genealogy of Morals

-Beyond Good and Evil

-The Antichrist

Alain de Benoist

-On Being a Pagan

Baruch Spinoza

-Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Richard Dawkins

-The Selfish Gene

Leonard Peikoff

-Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

-For the New Intellectual (Galt's Speech from Atlas Shrugged)

-The Virtue of Selfishness (The Objectivist Ethics)

Lao Tzu

-Dao de Ching

Aristotle

-Nichomachean Ethics

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if you are always doing something because you don’t know what will happen next, you are constantly in fear of losing something, or because there are things you can’t have, even though you would still be extremely motivated to take the actions, it can often leave a bad taste in your mouth.

I was positively surprised this summer when my wife switched from CaptureOne to LR+PS. Adobe did a great job with these two. The rest of the CC stack is still crap, especially AI.

I’d say PS with Generative Fill is the right tool for that.

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Golang is quite enjoyable